Theshira Pather
@theshirapather.bsky.social
🇿🇦 born | current Classics PhD at Edinburgh Uni | podcaster, gamer, avid reader, proud dog mum [she/her]
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Hi new followers! It's very exciting to meet all of you and thank you for following! I'll be trying to go through and follow back but just wanted to say that I probably won't follow those accounts that don't have a bio and picture and/or any posts just because I'm wary of bots etc. A bit about me 👇🏾🧵
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Double publication alert! Both the below focus on
@ubisoft.com's #Assassin'sCreedOdyssey as a case study, demonstrating not only how influential the game has been on my own (and others') thinking, but also on the development of games studies scholarship more broadly. #BrisotlDigitalGameLab
@ubisoft.com's #Assassin'sCreedOdyssey as a case study, demonstrating not only how influential the game has been on my own (and others') thinking, but also on the development of games studies scholarship more broadly. #BrisotlDigitalGameLab
August 7, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Double publication alert! Both the below focus on
@ubisoft.com's #Assassin'sCreedOdyssey as a case study, demonstrating not only how influential the game has been on my own (and others') thinking, but also on the development of games studies scholarship more broadly. #BrisotlDigitalGameLab
@ubisoft.com's #Assassin'sCreedOdyssey as a case study, demonstrating not only how influential the game has been on my own (and others') thinking, but also on the development of games studies scholarship more broadly. #BrisotlDigitalGameLab
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🚨JOB POSTING🚨 We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans among the colonized population/Indigenous population of the interwar imperial polity of the United States of America. 18 month contract, deadline October 03. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...
Post-Doctoral Researcher (Specified Purpose Contract), Department of History, Maynooth University | University Vacancies Ireland
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August 28, 2025 at 8:04 AM
🚨JOB POSTING🚨 We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans among the colonized population/Indigenous population of the interwar imperial polity of the United States of America. 18 month contract, deadline October 03. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...
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I'm collecting weird ghost stories listeners have heard for a podcast episode! It must be a story someone told YOU about somewhere that you were (NOT personal experiences). Think ghosts at your school, monsters in the woods, or apparently haunted shops. Drop yours here: forms.gle/WzXyGZLoe8iL...
Tell me the ghost stories you've heard!
I'm collecting the creepiest supernatural stories listeners have heard for an August podcast episode!
It needs to be a story someone told YOU about somewhere that you were. I am not looking for pers...
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August 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I'm collecting weird ghost stories listeners have heard for a podcast episode! It must be a story someone told YOU about somewhere that you were (NOT personal experiences). Think ghosts at your school, monsters in the woods, or apparently haunted shops. Drop yours here: forms.gle/WzXyGZLoe8iL...
Very interested in the new commentary on Ovid's Heroides! Will sadly be missing the talk as I am flying on the 15th, but sharing for those who may be interested in it!
August 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Very interested in the new commentary on Ovid's Heroides! Will sadly be missing the talk as I am flying on the 15th, but sharing for those who may be interested in it!
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It’s official. My last day of employment is August 2 (Saturday). I am still looking for anything, but my skills are in #archaeology (🏺), #gaming and #games, #publishing (#academia), adventure tourism and science expeditions (safety and logistics), and I’d be a fucking great professor.
I have about a month before the wheels come off
Welp. I am about to become a statistic no thanks to funding cuts leading to pauses and cancellations on contract work. I will be either furloughed or laid off on July 23. If anyone anywhere in the US is looking for a PhD P.I. or P.D. for full-time #CRM #archaeology work, I’m available. I will travel
July 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It’s official. My last day of employment is August 2 (Saturday). I am still looking for anything, but my skills are in #archaeology (🏺), #gaming and #games, #publishing (#academia), adventure tourism and science expeditions (safety and logistics), and I’d be a fucking great professor.
I submitted my PhD thesis for examination last month at @edinclassics.bsky.social and I'm still recovering! What an amazing, fulfilling and challenging experience which was incredibly emotional at times. I'm grateful to everyone who helped me through it - supervisors, mentors, friends, family...
July 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I submitted my PhD thesis for examination last month at @edinclassics.bsky.social and I'm still recovering! What an amazing, fulfilling and challenging experience which was incredibly emotional at times. I'm grateful to everyone who helped me through it - supervisors, mentors, friends, family...
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🚨 Are you a first-time author in women or gender history?
The WHN Annual Book Prize offers £500 for the best debut monograph in this field published in the UK (2023–2024).
Deadline: 15 August 2025
Open to WHN members.
Details: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
#WHNBookPrize #GenderHist
The WHN Annual Book Prize offers £500 for the best debut monograph in this field published in the UK (2023–2024).
Deadline: 15 August 2025
Open to WHN members.
Details: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
#WHNBookPrize #GenderHist
July 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🚨 Are you a first-time author in women or gender history?
The WHN Annual Book Prize offers £500 for the best debut monograph in this field published in the UK (2023–2024).
Deadline: 15 August 2025
Open to WHN members.
Details: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
#WHNBookPrize #GenderHist
The WHN Annual Book Prize offers £500 for the best debut monograph in this field published in the UK (2023–2024).
Deadline: 15 August 2025
Open to WHN members.
Details: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
#WHNBookPrize #GenderHist
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Happy publication day!
Finding Antiquity, Making the Modern Middle East: Archaeology, Empires, Nations publishes today. Many congratulations to the editors and contributors! @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social
Finding Antiquity, Making the Modern Middle East: Archaeology, Empires, Nations publishes today. Many congratulations to the editors and contributors! @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social
March 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Happy publication day!
Finding Antiquity, Making the Modern Middle East: Archaeology, Empires, Nations publishes today. Many congratulations to the editors and contributors! @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social
Finding Antiquity, Making the Modern Middle East: Archaeology, Empires, Nations publishes today. Many congratulations to the editors and contributors! @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social
This was such a nice episode. A must listen for anyone who loves folktales.
EP 265: A Frog For a Husband (Griffis)
Listen Here Watch Here A FROG FOR A HUSBAND Off in a valley among the stony mountains, there lived an old farmer named Pak Duri and his wife, Kim Boram. His land was poor and he had to toil from sunrise to sunset and often in the night, under the shining…
Listen Here Watch Here A FROG FOR A HUSBAND Off in a valley among the stony mountains, there lived an old farmer named Pak Duri and his wife, Kim Boram. His land was poor and he had to toil from sunrise to sunset and often in the night, under the shining…
EP 265: A Frog For a Husband (Griffis)
Listen Here Watch Here A FROG FOR A HUSBAND Off in a valley among the stony mountains, there lived an old farmer named Pak Duri and his wife, Kim Boram. His land was poor and he had to toil from sunrise to sunset and often in the night, under the shining moon, to get food. They were without children and he was too poor to adopt a son.
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January 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This was such a nice episode. A must listen for anyone who loves folktales.
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EP 266: The Devil’s Marriage (Fortier)
Listen Here Watch Here THE DEVIL’S MARRIAGE Once there was a pretty young girl, but she was very proud, and every time the young men came to court her, she found a pretext to send them away. One was too small, another was too tall, another had red hair; in…
Listen Here Watch Here THE DEVIL’S MARRIAGE Once there was a pretty young girl, but she was very proud, and every time the young men came to court her, she found a pretext to send them away. One was too small, another was too tall, another had red hair; in…
EP 266: The Devil’s Marriage (Fortier)
Listen Here Watch Here THE DEVIL’S MARRIAGE Once there was a pretty young girl, but she was very proud, and every time the young men came to court her, she found a pretext to send them away. One was too small, another was too tall, another had red hair; in short, she refused all her suitors. One day her mother said to her: “ My daughter, you see that tall, tall tree in the middle of the river?
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January 13, 2025 at 4:15 AM
EP 266: The Devil’s Marriage (Fortier)
Listen Here Watch Here THE DEVIL’S MARRIAGE Once there was a pretty young girl, but she was very proud, and every time the young men came to court her, she found a pretext to send them away. One was too small, another was too tall, another had red hair; in…
Listen Here Watch Here THE DEVIL’S MARRIAGE Once there was a pretty young girl, but she was very proud, and every time the young men came to court her, she found a pretext to send them away. One was too small, another was too tall, another had red hair; in…
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Tis the season to donate to your favourite working classicists so we can do it all again next year! ☕️ 🤭
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December 2, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Tis the season to donate to your favourite working classicists so we can do it all again next year! ☕️ 🤭
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Hello Bluesky Classicists! 👋 Join us *in person or online* on Friday 29th November at 5pm GMT for our next @ics.bsky.social PG WiP seminar - Martina Russo (Sapienza Università di Roma) on 'Tiberius’ opponents in Suetonius’ De vita Caesarum'. Register here to attend! ics.sas.ac.uk/events/tiber...
“Tiberium in Tiberim”: Tiberius’ opponents in Suetonius’ De vita Caesarum
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November 25, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Hello Bluesky Classicists! 👋 Join us *in person or online* on Friday 29th November at 5pm GMT for our next @ics.bsky.social PG WiP seminar - Martina Russo (Sapienza Università di Roma) on 'Tiberius’ opponents in Suetonius’ De vita Caesarum'. Register here to attend! ics.sas.ac.uk/events/tiber...
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I'm going on a podcast this weekend to discuss being a classicist with ADHD, and how it informs my study of the emperor Julian. So now I'm revisiting a piece I had written on the subject for the website Asterion a few years ago.
Anomalia and Ekstasis: Studying the emperor Julian with ADHD – Asterion | Celebrating Neurodiversity in Classics
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November 22, 2024 at 3:09 PM
I'm going on a podcast this weekend to discuss being a classicist with ADHD, and how it informs my study of the emperor Julian. So now I'm revisiting a piece I had written on the subject for the website Asterion a few years ago.
It was great to present at the AMPRAW conference hosted by the Malta Classics Association! I had a wonderful time in the beautiful city of Malta and deeply enjoyed everyone's presentations. With this and the AIMS conference over, I better get back to typing up my thesis! 👀 (thanks to MCA for the 📷)
November 22, 2024 at 6:51 PM
It was great to present at the AMPRAW conference hosted by the Malta Classics Association! I had a wonderful time in the beautiful city of Malta and deeply enjoyed everyone's presentations. With this and the AIMS conference over, I better get back to typing up my thesis! 👀 (thanks to MCA for the 📷)
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People are talking about echo chambers again, so here's my model. 🧵
There are three groups of people.
1. People we agree with (Enjoy them.)
2. People we can have interesting disagreements with (Learn from them.)
3. Bad people with bad views (Mute or block them with gay abandon.)
There are three groups of people.
1. People we agree with (Enjoy them.)
2. People we can have interesting disagreements with (Learn from them.)
3. Bad people with bad views (Mute or block them with gay abandon.)
November 20, 2024 at 9:57 PM
People are talking about echo chambers again, so here's my model. 🧵
There are three groups of people.
1. People we agree with (Enjoy them.)
2. People we can have interesting disagreements with (Learn from them.)
3. Bad people with bad views (Mute or block them with gay abandon.)
There are three groups of people.
1. People we agree with (Enjoy them.)
2. People we can have interesting disagreements with (Learn from them.)
3. Bad people with bad views (Mute or block them with gay abandon.)
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In a week I present 'Those About to Die: Locating Roland Emmerich’s Epic in the Landscape of Spectacle
Reception' at AMPRAW2024. The conference is hybrid and free to attend, check out the full programme and registration details in the link:
ancientbluesky
classicsmalta.org/annual-meeti...
Reception' at AMPRAW2024. The conference is hybrid and free to attend, check out the full programme and registration details in the link:
ancientbluesky
classicsmalta.org/annual-meeti...
Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World 2024 - Malta Classics Association
The Malta Classics Association is honoured to be entrusted with organising this year’s Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World 2024 in Malta, together with the ...
classicsmalta.org
November 15, 2024 at 9:18 AM
In a week I present 'Those About to Die: Locating Roland Emmerich’s Epic in the Landscape of Spectacle
Reception' at AMPRAW2024. The conference is hybrid and free to attend, check out the full programme and registration details in the link:
ancientbluesky
classicsmalta.org/annual-meeti...
Reception' at AMPRAW2024. The conference is hybrid and free to attend, check out the full programme and registration details in the link:
ancientbluesky
classicsmalta.org/annual-meeti...
I'm looking forward to presenting at this year's AMPRAW conference held in Malta! On Friday, I will present 'Using Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls to Highlight the Suffering of Modern Women'. Some excellent presentations lined up - take a look 👇🏾
classicsmalta.org/annual-meeti...
classicsmalta.org/annual-meeti...
Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World 2024 - Malta Classics Association
The Malta Classics Association is honoured to be entrusted with organising this year’s Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World 2024 in Malta, together with the ...
classicsmalta.org
November 18, 2024 at 10:16 PM
I'm looking forward to presenting at this year's AMPRAW conference held in Malta! On Friday, I will present 'Using Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls to Highlight the Suffering of Modern Women'. Some excellent presentations lined up - take a look 👇🏾
classicsmalta.org/annual-meeti...
classicsmalta.org/annual-meeti...
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📢 @jbhist.bsky.social & I are very pleased to announce that we are seeking a f/t 2-year Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History to join our major @ahrcpress funded research project on the Victorian Hand. Closes 6 December. Spread the word!!! hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History
The Department of History at Lancaster University are seeking to appoint a Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History. We are looking for a talented scholar of Victorian culture to ...
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk
November 18, 2024 at 7:52 AM
📢 @jbhist.bsky.social & I are very pleased to announce that we are seeking a f/t 2-year Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History to join our major @ahrcpress funded research project on the Victorian Hand. Closes 6 December. Spread the word!!! hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
Durham University - Department of #Archaeology www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ830/p...
Durham University - Department of #Archaeology www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ830/p...
Postdoctoral Research Associate at Durham University
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Postdoctoral Research Associate on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 18, 2024 at 8:04 AM
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Durham University - Department of #Archaeology www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ830/p...
Durham University - Department of #Archaeology www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ830/p...
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Here’s my latest decorated bowl, featuring roly-poly Dartmoor ponies, oaks and Bowerman’s Nose! ✍️
(Available at the Artisan Market in Bovey Tracey this Saturday, not in my online shop)
PS You might just spot Kevin the Roly-Poly Flying Pony 💛
(Available at the Artisan Market in Bovey Tracey this Saturday, not in my online shop)
PS You might just spot Kevin the Roly-Poly Flying Pony 💛
November 17, 2024 at 1:09 PM
Here’s my latest decorated bowl, featuring roly-poly Dartmoor ponies, oaks and Bowerman’s Nose! ✍️
(Available at the Artisan Market in Bovey Tracey this Saturday, not in my online shop)
PS You might just spot Kevin the Roly-Poly Flying Pony 💛
(Available at the Artisan Market in Bovey Tracey this Saturday, not in my online shop)
PS You might just spot Kevin the Roly-Poly Flying Pony 💛
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If you need an artist to illustrate your project on Ancient Mediterranean world, why not try one of these amazing artists who really know their stuff:
I’ve just got the hang of this starter-pack thingy!
I don’t think anyone else has made one yet, so here’s one for Artists doing Ancient Med/Classics/Myth stuff!
Let me know if you think you should be in here ⬇️
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I don’t think anyone else has made one yet, so here’s one for Artists doing Ancient Med/Classics/Myth stuff!
Let me know if you think you should be in here ⬇️
go.bsky.app/Tfz9A4Y
November 16, 2024 at 8:45 PM
If you need an artist to illustrate your project on Ancient Mediterranean world, why not try one of these amazing artists who really know their stuff:
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A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.
November 15, 2024 at 5:22 PM
A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.
Who else wants Little Mix to reunite and release a song remake: 'Shout Out to My X'? 🤚
November 15, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Who else wants Little Mix to reunite and release a song remake: 'Shout Out to My X'? 🤚